8/16/2007 @ 6:00AM

By The Numbers: Hip Hop Cash Kings

No. 16

Jermaine Dupri

$12 million

Rapper turned super-producer masterminded Usher’s chart-topper Confessions in 2004 followed by Mariah Carey’s blockbuster comeback album, The Emancipation of Mimi. Joined Virgin Music as head of its Urban Music division in 2005, taking with him his So So Def Records imprint, which released the debut efforts of Bow Wow and Kriss Kross. He resigned a year later following the release of girlfriend Janet Jackson’s most recent album, 20 Y.O. This year he joined Island Def Jam Records. Dupri made cameos in singles by Chingy and Carey. His fourth album (Y’all Know What This Iz?) drops later this year.